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If the altimeter was disabled would the drone refuse to fly to begin with?

The tldr;

“Therefore, the resulting stress difference between truck and car is 15,000 to 1.”

Sure, but she’s been kicked to the curb. What does she have to gain by continuing to protect the criminals?

Couldn’t prosecutors offer immunity from prosecution though? While she could still plead the 5th, it would mean she’s actively interested in shielding the criminals instead of just protecting herself.

Bob learned how to use the agent to do work, which is just as useful to society.

Bob used the agent to do the work of a junior and it cost him the ability to learn how to do it himself as a senior in the future.

This is an uncomfortably well written and thought out article. Its also helped me put into words some of my own conceptual reluctance to fully embrace LLMs in my work. I know how I’ve learned from tackling problems on my own in my career. I worry that the seductive siren of the “right answer” LLM without the effort may be too strong for me to resist or too subtle for me to notice.

Whats the answer? Become the constant contrarian never able to trust anything these output? At that point the value of using the LLM at all is erased.

SLAAC

I don’t really know what to say, but thank you is a start, I might actually be a bit down.

This can happen to any of us. If you need help, seek it. There’s no shame it in. We are not born with the tools to remedy everything. Many times we need to seek help outside of ourselves. Remember that life is worth living.

LEO is still in over 10-20k a cubsat no?

Nope! That same 1kg cubesat you’re referring to can be put in Sun synchronous orbit (meaning always has solar power exposure) for $5k-$6k on a rideshare launch that launch every 3 to 6 months. Picosats and even Femtosats are all smaller and cheaper with some less than $1k (but you may have to wait years for a launch).

I went for a walk, touched grass, and remembered one of my old inventions that I never had the time to build (and my homemade 3D printer wasn’t up to the job, but my new store bought one is, probably).

I’m glad to hear this! You’ve obviously got some incredible skills and experience. I hope you’re able to recapture your spark. It sounds like you’re already on the path to doing so!

and feel not so interested in just following say how a meshstatic works or just buy one.

If you’re at the high end of knowledge and skill, as it sounds like you are, you are even closer to being able to take advantage of technology that exists today that is cheap now that most of us. Ten years ago:

• a LiDAR system would have cost thousands of dollars. Today you can buy them for about $100.
• Inconel was only available to the state-of-the-art industrial processes and was very hard to manufacture parts with. Today you can upload your files, have your parts made via additive manufacturing with Inconel and those parts shipped right to your door for affordable prices.
• Computing power has significantly increased. TPUs are bringing down not only the cost of Tensor operations, but the energy consumption needed for equal amount of processing from 10 years ago.
• the cost per kg for delivering a payload to LEO has dropped dramatically in the last 10 years and continues to do so. More orbital inclinations are available on rideshare flights than ever before including many sun synchronous allowing for continuous solar power. Some idiot like me can actually afford to put an object in LEO. That’s freakin’ amazing!
• battery technology has evolved drastically in 10 years for commercially available product from cheap and plentiful LFPs to Na-ion cells that can operation without loss at - 40 °C without power loss.

“Everything” also has been built which doesn’t help. Or so I feel!

I can’t even imagine having this thought. Honestly, with your skill level I am getting the feeling this has nothing to do with the state of technology right now. I’m not going to pry into your personal life, but I’m wondering if you’re facing challenges that have nothing to do with technology, but are causing you distress depressing your interests in things you used to love. I could be way off, and if so forgive me for presuming.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a fun space but not much has happened the last ten years there (or prove me wrong 😁!)

10ish years ago when R Pi and Arduino entered the scene it was a big splash, but the most benefit really only occurred for folks that could take the raw parts and had the ability to built a new solution largely without help from others. Its even better today because you can buy a ready-made Pi Hat, fully documented, with drivers, to dramatically expand the functionality of an R Pi today. 10 years ago, you’d be laying out your own PCB, etching it yourself, and soldiering those SMT components with your own hot air pencil. Now you don’t, and you can access that functionality to keep building on whatever it is you’re actually trying to build.

Nearly everything has a RestAPI now. This means coding solutions are much more accessible for modifications. Software Defined Radio is cheap and easy now, all with over a decade of documented solutions and parts available. This leads to things like Meshtastic and Flipper.

Its a much more accessible space to these cheap and functional technologies than it was 10ish years ago.

Yes, both are expensive out-of-pocket. That’s part of the decision about why to not recommend gardisil (HPV vaccine) for the wider groups without the clinical outcomes to show the value. However, I addressed this in a later post in this thread, in the USA the ACA makes sure nearly all health insurance pays for recommended vaccines at 100%. So if you have insurance its most likely you can get gardisil or shingrex (for shingles) with zero out-of-pocket costs. I was surprised to see the retail price of Shingrex at $500, but I didn’t pay a penny of that as it was fully covered.

My friend had a really bad case of shingles at age 45 he was bedridden for 3 weeks in tremendous pain, he almost lost eyesight in one eye. Another friend got it at 41 and while she wasn’t as bad off as the first friend was tremendously painful and she was out of work for weeks. When I got my shingles shot I told the pharmacist these stories, and she told me she herself got shingles at 35.

I would have rolled the dice on a bad inflammatory reaction from shingles vaccine given the chance.

Using Extreme Ultraviolet lithography!

My rec is Hardbite Chips.

Awesome! These look like they’re available local to me only a couple miles away here on the wrong side of the border.

And German-born immigrant Peter Thiel?

If you’ve found one, do you have any leads on a Canadian brand that makes good All-Dressed chips? I’d definitely pick them on my next trip north.

When I initially readthe headline I was very confused because I hadn’t been aware Pepisco had become a semiconductor manufacturer.

I thought about that too, but juries usually don’t decide the sentence (in this case, execution). Juries just determine guilty or not on the charges. Sentencing is usually decided by the presiding judge after the jury renders its verdict on the charges and are already dismissed.

Yeah, thermal batteries are great mainly just when you actually want heat.

Right, that’s what this new technology is, a liquid thermal battery. There’s not electricity or motion generated by the OP article, just storing heat.

A pharmacist is perhaps in trouble for not following regulations? They set these rules because they’ve done studies about adverse effects, and those trials apparently only included folks up to age 45, so they don’t know for sure what would happen to older people. Its the same reason most people can’t get the Shingles vaccine until age 50 (even though LOTS of people under 50 get Shingles). The clinical data starts at 50 for that one.

You’re not going to die or anything, but the rules are in place they won’t give it to you so I recommend getting it while you can as it is clearly showing benefits over time. I got HPV shot before I aged out and it was completely paid for by insurance (because of the USA ACA).